[ravenstine]

Isn't the need for aggregators a failure of search engines? To the credit of Google, as much as I disdain them, combating SEO spam is a hard problem. I think that blogging feels "dead" because of SEO spam and because ads pay for jack shit these days.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Google knows very well that they're padding their search results with e-commerce sites to the detriment of meaningful content.